The Critical Works of John Dennis, 2. köideJohns Hopkins Press, 1943 |
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John Dennis Edward Niles Hooker. Milton had then been so far from writing the Paradise Lost , that he had never so much as thought of that Subject , but had at that time determin'd , after his Return to England , to write an Epick Poem ...
John Dennis Edward Niles Hooker. Milton had then been so far from writing the Paradise Lost , that he had never so much as thought of that Subject , but had at that time determin'd , after his Return to England , to write an Epick Poem ...
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... write , I know not by what means , an Ode that was not contemptible , and that there was neither Wit nor Agree- ' ableness in the Works of Monsieur Quinaut , tho ' very far remov'd from the ' Perfection of Virgil . I am oblig'd to add ...
... write , I know not by what means , an Ode that was not contemptible , and that there was neither Wit nor Agree- ' ableness in the Works of Monsieur Quinaut , tho ' very far remov'd from the ' Perfection of Virgil . I am oblig'd to add ...
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... write these Remarks . I was attack'd in the in the very second or third , and in several others . Since your Grace is of opinion that the Author of the Tragedy did not write those particular Papers , I am very willing to believe it ...
... write these Remarks . I was attack'd in the in the very second or third , and in several others . Since your Grace is of opinion that the Author of the Tragedy did not write those particular Papers , I am very willing to believe it ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
Appendix excerpts and miscellaneousContinued X From the Prologue to Gibraltar 1705 | 39 |
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